Something must be done about guns in America (2 letters)

At some point this country is going to have to decide which is more important: a gun in every hand or the lives of innocents. I am tired of the weekly massacres. It is time we have a real conversation about guns in this country without the endless right or left partisan talk.

I don’t want to live in a country where everyone I walk by is carrying a gun. There is no safe place in this country; I feel safer when I am outside the United States than when I am here. If I have to move to safer country, so be it. I am tired of shedding tears because we won’t deal with this issue.

Sherry Steele, Denver

This letter was published in the Dec. 27 edition.

How many more children have to die before we get some sensible gun control? Everyone’s so worried about depriving a person of their Second Amendment right to own a gun. Well, how about paying less attention to that and more attention to a child’s right to live, grow up, fall in love and have children of their own? What ever happened to a person’s right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”?

Jim Corcoleotes, Edgewater

This letter was published in the Dec. 27 edition.

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Mr. Corcoleotes hits on the singular truth of mankind: One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Or, one man’s “sensible gun control” is an infringement on another man’s rights.

It’s that eternal conflict that’s at the center of this debate. The one who finds the happy medium wins.

Oh, by the way, there is no “right to live, grow up, fall in love and have children of their own.” And that would violate the right of some to not love and not bear children.

Robtf777

We have laws that prohibit murder, rape, robbery, burglary, theft……and even laws that prohibit convicted felons from possessing a firearm.

The problem is not the law-abiding citizens.

The problem is the criminals.

Yes, we can limit magazine sizes and limit the style and calibers of guns that can be sold.

But what, exactly, do the Constitutionalists (Liberals) propose to do about al the guns/ammo the criminals already have……..that they have no intention of ever turning in……and who will continue to possess and use their weapons……in violation of even more laws that they currently ignore?

New York City has one of the most gun-restrictive laws in this country. Washington DC has one of the most gun-restrictive laws in this country. Is anyone under the delusion that those “gun laws” make those cities a “gun free zone” where crimes-committed-with-a-gun don’t ever take place?

In fact, both New York City and Washington DC probably have more Law Enforcement Officers With Guns (counting the various local agencies and the federal agencies) than most large cities have. Does that vast number of Armed Cops make either NYC or Washington DC a “low-crime-with-a-gun rate” or a “low-murder-by-gun rate” city?

Whether we like it or not (and most of us do NOT), criminals HAVE GUNS. They HAVE GUNS in Violation of the Law. They USE guns in Violation of the Law. They commit various crimes in Violation of the Law.

And the continual rant and rave to “disarm Law-Abiding Citizens”……by enacting more laws…..is NOT going to solve the Armed-Criminals-With-Guns Problem…..one iota.

holyreality

Sherry Steele,
You embody the antithesis of the final stanza of the Star Spangled Banner.

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